The Labor enquirer., 1887-06-18

4Hot, fopueo quietiy, aIter giving
him full time to digest his own words, II,
Anarchyr
A striking" silence told that the blow
had "struck" home and that the day had
dawned on the darkness in one mind more
II wonder" said he at parting, "if am
not Socialist myself and didn't know it
-and," he added laughingly, perhaps an
Anarchistv AL. W.
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For "Hayseed." ~
The free and Independent farmer of
America! How glorious are his privileges
and how bright his opportunities! His
broad fields lie before him covered with
new crops and an old mortgage; the first
has taken fourteen hours a day of hard
toll to bring into existence, the latter,
everything he could rake and scrape at
the end Of the year to keep from growing
into a monster which will devour him. If
there is anything left, the railroads will
fleece him Of 1t. He has turned the best
years of his life into something like penal
servitude, and his wife once blooming and
beautiful, into worn out, feeble, hopeless
drudge, to buy even the right to toll on
he few acres he calls home; the eternal,
blood-letting scheme called mortgage he
can never hope to escape from. The sun
light and air, arc as yet his own for no
scheme has been devised by which they
could be monopolized; but the water is no
longer his; that he must either pay for or
fight for, or both. Great men have de-
cided not to allow so great source of
profit to run to waste.
And yet the farmer will hitch up the
team, take the family to the nearest town
next Fourth OF July, shout and throw
fre-crackers for our glorious institutions
all day long, aud never notice how out of
place the Declaration of Independence
sounds.
The man who reads aloud the Declara-
tion Of Independence, next Fourth of July
anywhere in Illinois, will be arrested for
uttering incendiary language.
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/ have made up my mind never to pay
for an inch of land. When the time comes,
l am willing to fight for it.
4 \
Rent is the freebooter's toll; the penalty
demanded for venturing 10 exist; the bribe
offered to greed for the privilege of living
over a rod square Of mother earth.
LIZZIE NJ. SwANK.
Nv
workingmen are reminded by the
venal press that their wives and daughters
can't enjoy the eight-hour boom. We are
aware of that. While 800 women must
work night and day to tog out one useless
fashionable fiirt who does nothing to sup,
port herself, they are not likely to enjoy
eight hours. But il the fashionable firt
were compelled to support herself and
each working woman could also enjoy the
products of her toll, perhaps five hours
work would support her much better than
she now lives on twelve or fifteen hours.
The lazy, lettering, languishing, dreaming,
brainless female fashion post must go,
and when sheis compelled to furnish her
own toggery she will use her brain and
her hands or 60 naked and pretty look
ing thing the wasp-waisted, convex
chested spindle-shanked, round-shoul-
dered, toothless, nerveless, heartless,
brainless, butterfly Of fashion will be.
A He.
Her Private Opinion.
From private letter.
don't seem to find much new
to write about and to tell you the truth l
have only deep, dark unending disgust
for the workingman. can't help it; he
is brute and fool. But still my desire
to help humanity is as great as ever,-but
il is the children, the poor suffering chill
dren that touch my my heart. = =
A. Il.
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"when the young men become thought
full, Liberty is saved" MrcHELEr.
"when the young men of nation are
conservative Liberty is already dead"
WENDELL PHILLIPS.
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